Nursery World - What a performance (3)

There's more than one way to put on a show with your after-school drama group. Alex Marker has ideas for staging scenes that are sure to be crowd-pleasers I have long resigned myself to the fact that the best work done by any of the drama groups that I have led will be seen by me and me only. Little nuggets of spontaneity and timing that occasionally border on genius flare up. I know that even if I happened to record the scene on videotape and get the participants to learn it word for word then something would be lost by the time it reached an audience.

I have long resigned myself to the fact that the best work done by any of the drama groups that I have led will be seen by me and me only. Little nuggets of spontaneity and timing that occasionally border on genius flare up. I know that even if I happened to record the scene on videotape and get the participants to learn it word for word then something would be lost by the time it reached an audience.

Lucky me, you might say, but groups need to work towards some kind of end product to sustain interest and provide some sense of direction to the drama club. To perform and be seen performing is arguably drama's raison d'etre, therefore a school production is obviously a satisfying way of rounding off a term and can be remembered by the children for the rest of their lives. After-school drama club activities could be arranged with such a production in mind, or even used as specific rehearsals for the event.

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